Sanrio Plushes Reimagine Mascots as Chuuni Delinquents

Taito has added some big Sanrio plushes into its crane games, with the mascots dressed like they’re chuuni delinquents. You can also try to pull for these plushes from the Taito’s online crane service.

There are four variations of plushes to get: Hello Kitty, Cinnamoroll, Badtz-Maru, and Kuromi. Kuromi and Cinnamoroll are wearing eyepatches and have bandages over a ear. Hello Kitty doesn’t have an eyepatch but she’s winking. Badtz-Maru has closed both of his eyes, and both he and Hello Kitty have badges around an arm. Badtz-Maru’s outfit is the closest to a stereotypical Japanese delinquent, complete with a red shirt and an open gakuran.

These plushes are from Sanrio’s Darkness School series. It reimagines the mascots as students living out an extraordinary daily life in a school that has been consumed by darkness. This is a fairly chuuni kind of setting, which explains the bandages around the character.

For those who don’t know, chuunibyou or Middle School Syndrome is a term to describe how embarrassing kids around thirteen or fourteen can act. “Symptoms” include convincing others around them that they’re smarter than they appear (using terms and words that sound cool but might not be appropriate for daily conversation) or that they have special powers and abilities. People with chuunibyou may see bandages as cool due to characters like Hiei (Yu Yu Hakusho) and Dazai (Bungo Stray Dogs) having them.

The Sanrio Darkness School plushes are available in Taito crane games.